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Changing short description from "Encoding scheme developed by the US Bureau of the Census for efficiently storing geographical data" to "Encoding scheme for storing geographical data"

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	'''Dual Independent Map Encoding''' ('''DIME''') is an [[code\|encoding]] scheme developed by the [[United States Census Bureau\|US Bureau of the Census]] for efficiently storing [[geography\|geographical]] data. The committee behind the case study that eventually resulted in DIME was established in 1965, although the term ''DIME'' itself was first coined by George Farnsworth in August 1967. The [[file format]] developed for storing the DIME-encoded data was known as [[Geographic Base Files]] (GBF). The Census Bureau replaced the data format with [[Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in 1990.		'''Dual Independent Map Encoding''' ('''DIME''') is an [[code\|encoding]] scheme developed by the [[United States Census Bureau\|US Bureau of the Census]] for efficiently storing [[geography\|geographical]] data. The committee behind the case study that eventually resulted in DIME was established in 1965, although the term ''DIME'' itself was first coined by George Farnsworth in August 1967. The [[file format]] developed for storing the DIME-encoded data was known as [[Geographic Base Files]] (GBF). The Census Bureau replaced the data format with [[Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in 1990.

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	== External links ==		== External links ==
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120722014135/http://www.ncgia.buffalo.edu/gishist/DIME_story.html A short story of DIME]		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120722014135/http://www.ncgia.buffalo.edu/gishist/DIME_story.html A short story of DIME]
	*[http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html What is GIS (corporate backed web site)]		*{{cite web \| title=What is GIS? \| Geographic Information System Mapping Technology \|url=http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html }} What is GIS (corporate backed web site)

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'''Dual Independent Map Encoding''' ('''DIME''') is an [[code|encoding]] scheme developed by the [[United States Census Bureau|US Bureau of the Census]] for efficiently storing [[geography|geographical]] data. The committee behind the case study that eventually resulted in DIME was established in 1965, although the term ''DIME'' itself was first coined by George Farnsworth in August 1967. The [[file format]] developed for storing the DIME-encoded data was known as [[Geographic Base Files]] (GBF). The Census Bureau replaced the data format with [[Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in 1990.

== See also ==
*[[Geographic information system]]

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120722014135/http://www.ncgia.buffalo.edu/gishist/DIME_story.html A short story of DIME]
*[http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html What is GIS (corporate backed web site)]

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